planning for people – an overview of the sump concept and its benefits

Planning for People – an overview of the SUMP concept and its benefits

UBC Joint Commission meeting in the City of Tallinn10-12 April 2013

Maija RusanenUBC Commission on Environment

Overview of SUMP Concept and its Benefits

• European Policy Background on Sustainable Urban Mobility

• Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans– Planning for People

• Benefits of SUMPs

Content of the presentation


If you imagine your city in 20 years, what would you like it to look like?


“If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you

get people and places.”

Fred Kent, Project for Public Spaces


European Policy Background on Sustainable Urban Mobility

Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans have gained increased recognition and importance at European level

•Action Plan on Urban Mobility: Action 1 — Accelerating the take-up of Sustainable Urban Mobility plans (2009):

– Support to local authorities in developing Sustainable Urban Mobility plans

– Guidance material, best practice examples and training activities for urban mobility professionals


European Policy Backgroundon Sustainable Urban Mobility

•European Council of Ministers

– Supports initiatives to adopt an integrated policy approach

– Encourages the coordination of transport infrastructure planning and service planning with town and county planning, including land use planning

•2011 Transport White Paper– Examining the possibility of a mandatory approach for cities of

certain size, according to national standards based on EU guidelines.

– Link regional development and cohesion funds to cities and regions that have submitted a current, independently validated Urban Mobility Performance and Sustainability Audit certificate.


Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans – Planning for People

• Sustainable Urban mobility Plan is a Strategic plan designed to satisfy the mobility needs of people and businesses in cities and their surroundings for a better quality of life.

• The policies and measures defined in a SUMP cover all modes and forms of transport in the entire urban agglomeration


• A Sustainable Urban Mobility plan aims to create a sustainable transport system by addressing – at least – the following objectives:

– Ensure the accessibility offered by the transport system is available to all;– Improve safety and security; – Reduces air and noise pollution, green house gas emissions and

energy consumption; – Improve the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of the transportation of

persons and goods; – Contribute to the enhancing the attractiveness and quality of the urban

environment and urban design.



Sustainable urban mobility planning stands for

being able to plan for the future of your city with its people as the focus.

Planning for people


Characteristics of Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning:

•Active involvement of all stakeholders and the engagement of citizens - Planning for People.

•Looking "beyond the borders" – an integrated approach between policy sectors

– cooperation between authority levels

– coordination across neighbouring authorities

•Commitment to sustainability, i.e. balancing social equity, environmental quality and economic development



• Focus on achieving ambitious, measurable targets

• Targeting cost internalisation i.e. reviewing transport costs and benefits for society

• Including all steps of the life cycle of policy making and implementation



SUMPs and traditional transport planning

Traditional urban transport planning Sustainable urban mobility planning

Infrastructure is the key issue > Infrastructure is one way to achieve the wider goals

Project planning > Strategic and goal-oriented planning

Non-transparent decision-making > Transparent decision-making that includes the public

Traffic flow capacity and speed as key goals > Accessibility and quality of life as key goals

Focus on traffic > Focus on people

Investment-intensive planning > Cost-efficient planning

Meeting transport demand > Transport demand management

Focused on large and costly projects > Focused on efficient and gradual improvements

In the domain of transport engineers >

Interdisciplinary; integration of engineering, health, environment, and spatial planning sectors

Selecting transport projects without strategic assessments >

Strategic assessments of the options, considering the set goals



• Guidelines – Developing and Implementing a Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan

• Introduces the concept and sets out the steps involved in the preparation of such plans

• Presents good practice examples, toolks and references to further information

• www.mobilityplans.eu


SUMP A full SUMP cycle includes

four main phases:

I: Preparing well for the planning process

II: Rational and transparent goal setting

III: Elaborating the plan

IV: Implementing the plan


Action and

budget plan


SUMP SYKLI


• Quality of life & attractive city centre • Safer urban environment• Stronger economy • Less pollution, noise and emissions• Social inclusion• Avoidance of urban sprawl• Healthier citizens• Improved mobility and accessibility • Citizen- and stakeholder-supported decisions• New political vision and integration potential

Becoming visible especially in mid- to long-run

Benefits of SUMPs


Thank you!Maija Rusanen, [email protected]

www.mobilityplans.eu


Benefits of SUMPs

• Can help to meet legal requirements, e.g. EU Air Quality Directive

• Netherlands, France, England – SUMP key to getting transport funding from central government

• Work with different fields, e.g. health, get new money for transport

• Helps to plan transport systematically to allow development of land


France: Plans de Déplacements Urbains

•Main objectives of PDU: to assure coordination among all modes of transport, as well as promotion of less polluting and more energy efficient modes.

•Obligatory for urban agglomerations with more than 100 000 inhabitants

•Responsible authority: the urban transport authority that is often a metropolitan authority, a public transport authority or individual municipality

•Should be compatible with a range of other plans and strategies such as on urban development, on air quality, and climate protection, on territorial development, on higher level transport and road development schemes

Examples of Implemented plans


Transportplan for Örebro kommun (Sweden)

Challenge: How to create a sustainable society, where the ability to travel and to transport goods meets the needs and desires of the people, but not at the expense of either environmental degradation or the impaired health of those living today or those of future generations?

The transport plan is an important part of this work.

What is needed?

•New kind of thinking that is not only centred around the use of cars

•New kinds of skills and knowledge on how to utilise the existing information on transport and how to adopt a more holistic way of thinking

•Cooperation across sectors and looking beyond the borders for inspiration and examples



The objectives of the transport plan are grouped under seven headings:

1. The Scope of Traffic

2. Urban Development

3. The Regional Transport System

4. Road Safety

5. Climate Impacts

6. Air Quality

7. Noise

The process is as important as the document

Transportplan for Örebro kommun

planning for people – an overview of the sump concept and its benefits

Documents

urban environment

urban design

peopleoverview of sump

county planning

service planning

sustainable transport

strategic plan

forms of transport